Originally Posted by rune_74
Or in a less weird but more realistic spin, they always meant to have 3 ME's and they wanted to continue with the universe with a new storyline?

It's standard marketing practice to re-use the name of the prior games to benefit from the built-in publicity. Just think of game series like Baldur's Gate, Ultima, Wizardry, &c. Hence it's not 'wierd'. What's anomalous is a case where they use the same setting but not the name.

Originally Posted by ChienAboyeur
They did not state they wont use the ME name. What they insist on is the number.